Hi,

to my knowledge, you can't assign different alert sounds for e-mail accounts.

Ricardo Walker
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On Dec 15, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Lu Ann Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> I thought there was only one email sound.  Hubby would like to have different 
> sounds for his home and work email accounts.  He doesn't want to look at work 
> email when he's off.  He's a network engineer and puts in long hours, so 
> separate sounds would be nice.  How do you set up different sounds for 
> different email accounts?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Kliphton
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:45 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: email sound alert
> 
> You can set up different sounds for different accounts?  Now that I didn't 
> know.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Sieghard Weitzel
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: email sound alert
> 
> Hi Rebecca,
> 
> I haven't set up anything, it just does. If you have your mail account 
> configured to use Push or check at a certain time interval it should do this. 
> I guess it's like phone calls and text messages, they come in regardless 
> whether the Phone or Messages app is open or in the app switcher and mail is 
> the same.
> 
> And just to make sure I am not putting my foot in my mouth, I did just test 
> this. I removed everything from the app switcher so it was completely empty.
> For good measure I rebooted the phone by turning it off and on again. While 
> it was off I sent an email from my personal address to my business address, 
> both of these are set up on my iPhone. My business email is full exchange via 
> Office 365 and my personal is a Hotmail address and I have both said to 
> "Push" which means messages come in instantly.
> 
> When I turned my phone back on and Voiceover started talking in the lock 
> screen I waited a moment and about 2 seconds later I heard the mail sound I 
> selected for my business mail account, I hadn't even unlocked the phone at 
> that point, once I did Voiceover said "Mail, 1 new item" and my email was 
> there.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sieghard
> 
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